Albert Camus The Rebel Quotes

#1. Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes. - ALBERT CAMUS, THE REBEL

Clive James

#2. What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Albert Camus

#3. I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.

Shanley Caswell

#4. What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Albert Camus

#5. By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

Elisabeth Elliot

#6. The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

Albert Camus

#7. Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

#8. All I wanted was for you to be okay. All I wanted was to help you. I would've done anything."
She drops her chin to her chest. "Yes, I know. You wanted to rescue me."
"Damn, Mia. You say that like it's a bad thing.

Gayle Forman

#9. The Lord said: Time [death] I am, the destroyer of the worlds, who has come to annihilate everyone. Even without your taking part all those arrayed in the [two] opposing ranks will be slain!

Anonymous

#10. Logically, one should reply that murder and rebellion are contradictory. If a single master should, in fact,
be killed, the rebel, in a certain way, is no longer justified in using the term community of men from which
he derived his justification.

Albert Camus

#11. Resentment is always resentment against oneself. The
rebel, on the contrary, from his very first step, refuses to allow anyone to touch what he is. He is fighting
for the integrity of one part of his being. He does not try, primarily, to conquer, but simply to impose.

Albert Camus

#12. God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

Seneca The Younger

#13. Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

Albert Camus

#14. The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so
as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase the
universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness.

Albert Camus

#15. In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Albert Camus

#16. That the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another.

Lao-Tzu

#17. The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

Ruben Blades

#18. I'm just waiting for the miracle to come

Leonard Cohen

#19. What is a rebel? Someone who says no. But saying no does not mean giving up: it also means saying yes, with every gesture.

Albert Camus

#20. I rebel - therefore we exist

Albert Camus

#21. I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me.

Sam Hamill

#22. The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Albert Camus

#23. For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

Brian Sandoval

#24. I rebel; therefore I exist.

Albert Camus

#25. In order to exist, man must rebel.

Albert Camus